Conservative Wipeout

The conservative Liberal Party took the establishment of a nuclear power industry in Australia as its central plank policy to the election just held, in fact, it could be argued, that it was their only policy that they took to the last election.

What other policy did it have? Ceasing work from home and forcing workers back to the office, until polling told them that was a losing policy and they had to embarrassingly ditch that one halfway through the campaign. Sacking 40 thousand public servants, which apparently, the electorate did much like either. And I’m sure there was some muttering about there only being two sexes, which I think just made them look too much like the disaster that is America at the moment. Oh yes, and a temporary reduction in petrol excise. Oh, really, when the price of petrol goes up and down quicker than a whore’s undies anyway.

So, with the establishment of a nuclear industry as their central policy, the conservative Liberal Party got all but wiped out at the election we just had. They had their worst electoral loss in their history, I believe.

They team up with the (climate change denying) Country National Party conservatives who didn’t do badly in the just held election, because they have rusted on rural voters, I presume.

Anyway, cutting a long story of recriminations about the election wipe out, now the Country National Party group of conservatives want to keep the Nuclear Power policy as a part of the conservatives’ agenda.

A policy, the electorate was intelligent enough to know was simply a vehicle for delegitimatizing renewable energy in this country, while at the same time indirectly maintaining the use of fossil fuels.

That is, actually, how arrogant the conservatives are.

Anyway, their loss was so bad that it looks like they could well be in opposition for the next two election cycles, so that has to be good a good thing.

Australia has a ban on nuclear energy which would first have to be lifted before the conservatives could inflict nuclear power on Australia. So, could our current progressive government institute a permanent ban on nuclear power over the next 6 years? Could they? The Greens hold the balance of power in the senate so surely together they could do something?